Quotes About Selectivity

In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.

The ability to say no is a tremendous advantage for an investor.

I wish we could edit our lives, be more selective with whom we spend time and what we spend our money on. To appreciate more what we all have - we appreciate things more when we lose them.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

A key to life is knowing what to ignore and when to shut up. :)

There's lots of stocks out there and all you need is a few of 'em. That's been my philosophy.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your endeavors, and think well of the endeavors of others.

Een boek is voor hem [C. Buddingh'] zo iets als een rommelwinkel voor andere koopjesjagers. Je vindt hier en daar wat moois, een aardig vaasje, een raar plaatje, maar de winkelvoorraad als geheel interesseert je geen zier. Zo leest Kees boeken. Hij pikt er zinnetjes uit, zoals een kind snot uit z'n neus peutert en smakelijk opeet, zonder te weten hoe het is ontstaan, zonder zich in de functie van slijmvliezen en de ademhaling te verdiepen, zonder iets te begrijpen van de totale mens, hè.

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

The truth is, the best win-lost records are not built on great trial work. They are built on cherry-picking only the strongest cases for trial and pleading out the rest, regardless of the right and wrong of it.

In France, being exigeant, or discriminating, is considered a positive quality,

I've always been a very good judge of people. That's why I like so very few of them.

The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.

The historian amputates reality.

Everything ought to be open,—but not indifferently to every man.

It used to be said that facts speak for themselves. This is, of course, untrue. The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context.

The historian is necessarily selective. The belief in a hard core of historical facts existing objectively and independently of the interpretation of the historian is a preposterous fallacy, but one which it is very hard to eradicate.

I was not a kid who watched every movie. I watched a very small number of movies over and over again.

I don't watch every fight; I am not huge on watching fights on TV. Because I did it my whole life. But I do watch the big fights. I follow the little fights too, sometimes; I just don't have to watch every single fight that happens.

We cannot allow the indiscriminate entry of all those who come here only because they wanted to come.

Every social network on Earth pitches me, and I say no to nearly every single one of them.